CHAPTER IV

Earning a Living — Manual Labor and
THE Trades

In "The American Race Problem," one of
our recent important books upon the Negro,
the author, Mr. Alfred Holt Stone of Missis¬
sippi, after a survey of the world, declares
that "to me, it seems the plainest fact con¬
fronting the Negro is that there is but one
area of any size wherein his race may obey
the command to eat its bread in the sweat of
its face side by side with the white man.
That area is composed of the Southern
United States."'

On examination we find that only men of
English and North European stock are
"white" to Mr. Stone, and that his state¬
ment is too sweeping by a continent or two,
but as applying to the United States, it will

' Alfred Holt Stone, " Studies in the American Race Prob¬
lem," p. 164.

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